INDEX

Hamilton's, 115 Lavoisier's, 300, 310 Mayer's, 119, 121, 123, 300, 312, 318 Newton's, 146, 300, 308-9, 312 of action and reaction, 300, 487, 502 of conservation of energy, 300 of degradation of energy, 300 of inertia, 93, 486, 507 of least action, 118, 300 of relativity, 300, 305, 498, 505 Prony, 445 psychologist, 383 Ptolemy, 110, 291, 353-4 Pythagoras, 292 quadrature of the circle, 161 qualitative geometry, 238 space, 207 time, 224 quaternions, 282 radiometer, 503 radium, 312, 318, 486-7 Rados, 201 Ramsay, 313 rational geometry, 5, 467 reaction, 502 reality, 217, 340, 349